Timetable set for gas terminal bid
CALIFORNIA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger could make a final decision as early as July on BHP-Billiton’s controversial $US4 billion ($5.3 billion) gas terminal proposal.
Natural Gas
Russia: Indigenous peoples protest against Sakhalin oil, gas projects
Representatives of indigenous peoples blocked more than 100 pieces of heavy machinery in Sakhalin on Friday to protest against local oil and gas projects.
NZ: Choice of LNG site ‘months away’
New Zealand electricity companies begin planning for the construction of an LNG refinery.
“Stranded” Natural Gas to Liquid Fuel, is it time?
Every day natural gas flares around the world burn off 10 billion cubic feet of energy–the equivalent of 1.7 million barrels of oil. A tiny R&D company in Tulsa, Oklahoma called Syntroleum Corp. claims it has refined a gas-to-liquids process to the point that it’s now cheap and safe, and can be used in the field to produce more easily transported fuels.
Energy tsunami unleashed
An energy tsunami formed due to a number of multi-billion dollar energy deals in oil and gas involving Iran, India, Russia and China has been unleashed in Asia, with great economic and political implications for the United States in particular and our global society in general.
Norway 2005 Oil Output Seen Dipping to 2.8 Million Bpd
Norway’s oil production is likely to slip to 2.8 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2005 but combined oil and gas output will hit a new record and peak in 2008, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said on Thursday.
Pakistan shuts largest gas field after gunbattle
Pakistani authorities suspended gas supplies from the country’s largest gas field after clashes between tribal militants and security forces killed four people, officials said.
US: New Natural Gas Policy Sought
Seventeen organizations–chemical companies as well as environmental and conservation groups–fired off a letter to Congress last week urging a new energy policy to solve the nation’s natural gas crisis.
India signs mega LNG import deal with Iran
India has entered into an agreement with Iran to import 7.5 million tonnes per annum of liquefied natural gas (LNG), starting 2009, over a period of 25 years.
Louisiana’s oil infrastructure endangered
An impending crisis that could have a detrimental impact on the oil and gas infrastructure and fishing industry in the United States is leading scientists to investigate how to stop rapid deterioration and to start restoring marsh land in Louisiana’s southern coastal wetlands-which are losing a piece of land the size of a football field every 35 minutes.
Gas rush: with shortages looming, Alaska firms seek new deposits
Clifford, 49, is an oil man, one in a growing stable of risk takers hunting new supplies of natural gas around Cook Inlet. They’re drawn by a big surge in gas prices, plus forecasts of a looming shortage for gas-addicted Southcentral Alaska.
Russia greenlights pipeline to Pacific, hints China may get Yukos assets stake
Russia said Friday it had ordered the construction of an oil pipeline from its huge Siberian oilfields to the Pacific Ocean opposite Japan, in a move to boost export opportunities throughout East Asia and to the United States.